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	Last updated: Thu, 26 Jun 2008

nl2br

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

nl2br — Inserts HTML line breaks before all newlines in a string

Description

string nl2br ( string $string )

Returns string with '<br />' inserted before all newlines.

Parameters

string: The input string.

Return Values

Returns the altered string.

ChangeLog

Version Description

4.0.5 nl2br() is now XHTML compliant. All older versions will return string with '<br>' inserted before newlines instead of '<br />'.

Examples

Example #1 using nl2br()


<?php

echo nl2br("foo isn't\n bar");

?>

The above example will output:

foo isn't<br />
 bar